After the Seahawks signed QB Russell Wilson and LB Bobby Wagner to deals worth $130 million combined, something had to give under the NFL's salary cap. Turned out to be DT Tony McDaniel, 30, a two-year starter who counted $3.6 million against the cap.

When coach Pete Carroll said after QB Russell Wilson signed his new deal that the Seahawks were working hard on getting done a deal for MLB Bobby Wagner, he wasn't kidding. Reports Saturday night said Wagner has agreed to a $43 million extension over four years, a record for an NFL linebacker.

Kam Chancellor continued his holdout Saturday from Seahawks training camp. It is a largely futile protest, as teammate Michael Bennett could tell him. Bennett grumbled frequently this off-season about the deal he struck a year earlier. But he showed up for work Friday.

RENTON -- Since Paul Allen is the richest owner in the NFL by a magnitude of four, the casual football fan may be puzzled as to why the billionaire Seahawks owner can't pay his star QB as he pleases. Allen can't because there is a cruel irony baked into the game's rules: All the ruthless capitalists who own the game have agreed to play football as socialists.

After months of negotiations and with a self-imposed deadline imminent, the Seahawks and quarterback Russell Wilson agreed Friday morning on a four-year extension worth $87.6 million. Wilson's new deal includes a $31 million signing bonus and $60 million in guaranteed money.Those figures are supplied by spotrac.com, which curates all NFL contracts.

The agreement, first reported via Twitter by Peter King of SI.com, was confirmed by Wilson, who tweeted, "Blessed to be w/this organization for four more years! Can't wait to get on the field w/the fellas."

Let Pete Carroll's opening remark at his first press conference as Seahawks coach go on for 11½ minutes. As far as any witness will testify, he never paused for a period, a comma or evenspacesbetweenwords

Became only the second team in NFL history to enter the playoffs with a losing record (7-9), then beat the defending champion New Orleans Saints

Now Kam Chancellor is demanding more money. The Seahawks' safety has informed the club that he is strongly considering a holdout, even though the 27-year-old, three-time Pro Bowler still has three years remaining on a contract that he signed prior to the start of the 2013 season. Teammate Michael Bennett has also threatened a holdout with two years remaining on his deal.

Pete Carroll is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week for a story on how he and the Seahawks recover from the most notorious call in the history of Earth, edging past the real-estate investments made just ahead of the Great Permian die-off.

My guess is that next week's cover will be Tom Brady, for being notorious, period.

The man who didn't catch the Seahawks' final pass of the Super Bowl also hasn't caught a glimpse of the replay, either.

In his first public comments since the biggest misplay in Super Bowl history, WR Ricardo Lockette, in a first-person story for the Players' Tribune, says he has deliberately avoided seeing the moment that assures him a permanent place in sports history.

Tod Leiweke, the Seahawks CEO who hired coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider, then left to become part owner of the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning that reached the Stanley Cup Final in June, is the new chief operating officer of the NFL, the No. 2 position in the league office.

CB Brandon Browner (Saints) said his Super Bowl ring from New England is bigger, but his Seahawks Super Bowl ring has more diamonds, deftly sidestepping a wound dangerous to open in the greater Seattle area.

Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather didn't show up as promised, relieving Sherman of an awkward explanation for benefiting from a serial clobberer of women (men, too, but that's sanctioned by society).

Russell Wilson apparently is a man of discipline, claiming during an appearance at a San Diego church Sunday that he and hottie girlfriend Ciara are practicing abstinence. Video of the wildly rambling interview with the Seahawks quarterback and pastor Miles McPherson below already has drawn a about a quarter of a million hits on YouTube.

The last-minute interception that may have cost the Seattle Seahawks a second consecutive Super Bowl championship is the gift that keeps on giving nightmares to Seahawks fans.

Worthly.com published a list of the 15 worst decisions in sports history. Guess what came in No. 1? Yep, the Seahawks’ ill-fated decision to throw from the 1-yard line instead of handing off the ball to Marshawn Lynch in February.

Kevin Williams, who made 30 tackles and saw action in all Seahawks' games last season, signed a one-year deal with the New Orleans Saints Friday. Williams spent the first 11 years of his NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings, racking up a slew of All-Pro selections and Pro Bowl invitations, before joining Seattle last year as a free agent.

The master of both coin flip and team-first,Tarvaris Jackson will return to the Seahawks to back up QB Russell Wilson, according to Fox Sports Tuesday. Jackson had been a free agent looking a chance to compete for a starting job, but finally accepted the Seahawks offer.

Mark Rodgers, agent for Russell Wilson, sent a 16-page letter to the Seahawks regarding his view of contract negotiations, according to the league's house organ, NFL Network. My first reaction to the news Monday:

"I love you" can be sent in a tweet, and still have room for a bunch of "xoxoxoxoxo."

To hear Mark Rodgers tell it, the discussions between the agent for QB Russell Wilson and the Seahawks front office are a coo and a whisper short of an office bromance. Contrary to much national media speculation, the conclusion of negotiations could be accompanied by Julie Andrews singing, "The Sound of Music."

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